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08-07-2007, 10:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Why do DR high beams...
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make my bass sound like a hammer dulcimer when I pluck it >.>
I just threw some on after using Ernie Balls for a year, and i'm trying to break em in. Things to note though, they are so damn bright, not a bad think, but when slapping I swear it sounds like a hammer dulcimer. |
08-07-2007, 11:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denton Tx | | | Not sure what the hammered dulcimer sound is, sounds interesting. Can ya post a soundclip?
I love hi-beams, takes me about 10 minutes to work the real hard twangyness out of em then IMO they're awesome for a couple months after that. |
08-07-2007, 11:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL | | http://youtube.com/watch?v=TxjpYHhfRyI Hammer dulcimer brought to you by a cute chick.
Twangy, like, super ultra mega twangy.
Sounds like FFVII music |
08-07-2007, 11:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Lol i've listened to this a few times now, that's pretty badass, it's like piano but twangier. |
08-07-2007, 11:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lowpro  make my bass sound like a hammer dulcimer when I pluck it >.>
I just threw some on after using Ernie Balls for a year, and i'm trying to break em in. Things to note though, they are so damn bright, not a bad think, but when slapping I swear it sounds like a hammer dulcimer. |
You're hearing not just the fundamental (the pure tone at which the string vibrates) but multiple strong harmonics (other frequencies related to the fundamental by a specific mathematical interval such as 2x, 3x, 4x...) and overtones (frequncies related to the fundamental by a specific mathematical interval such as 2/3x, 4/3x, 4/5x...).
DR High Beams are made so that they vibrate with stronger harmonics and overtones than any other string on the market.
If you can get them to divulge the secret of how they do this, you'll be very popular here at TB.  |
08-08-2007, 12:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denton Tx | | Doh!
Thanks, now I got GAS for a dulcimer  |
08-08-2007, 12:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Dude i know, it's crazy. here I was half kidding and now...im into it.
Also, yea I know the DR hi-beams are designed to kinda be brighter as well as pull out those kinda sounds, but i'm still just breakin' em in, and it still sounds wierd to me.
Hopefully I'll like em. |
08-08-2007, 03:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Birmingham AL | | Dude, ask yor bass teacher!!  |
08-08-2007, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | One other neat thing, doin a pulloff now almost always resonates a harmonic, something my Ernie Balls didn't do. Or if they did it wasn't this loud...
neat stuff, I'm kinda diggin' these strings. My next pack'll be Low-riders though. |
08-08-2007, 05:31 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Your EB's were pretty old for most of the time you were hearin' 'em... they weren't as zingy as a fresh pair.
Hi-Beams are my personal favorite strings. So damn snappy. |
08-08-2007, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | EB's go dead after short time so maybe you got used to dead sound? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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